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  3. To 'joy my freedom: southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War

To 'joy my freedom: southern Black women's lives and labors after the Civil War

Tera W. Hunter 1997 © The President and Fellows of Harvard College
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  • 9780674893085 (paper)
  • 9780674893092 (hardcover)
Subject
  • American: 1789-1899
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface (page vii)
  • Prologue
  • CHAPTER ONE "Answering Bells Is Played Out": Slavery and the Civil War (page 4)
  • CHAPTER TWO Reconstruction and the Meanings of Freedom (page 21)
  • CHAPTER THREE Working-Class Neighborhoods and Everyday Life (page 44)
  • CHAPTER FOUR "Washing Amazons" and Organized Protests (page 74)
  • CHAPTER FIVE The "Color Line" Gives Way to the "Color Wall" (page 98)
  • CHAPTER SIX Survival and Social Welfare in the Age of Jim Crow (page 130)
  • CHAPTER SEVEN "Wholesome" and "Hurtful" Amusements (page 145)
  • CHAPTER EIGHT "Dancing and Carousing the Night Away" (page 168)
  • CHAPTER NINE Tuberculosis as the "Negro Servants' Disease" (page 187)
  • CHAPTER TEN "'Looking or a Free State to Live In" (page 219)
  • Tables (page 241)
  • Notes (page 245)
  • Acknowledgments (page 296)
  • Index (page 299)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 103.5 (Dec. 1998): 1702 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8762%28199812%29103%3A5%3C1702%3AT%27MFSB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-3
JAH 85.1 (Jun. 1998): 290-291 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-8723%28199806%2985%3A1%3C290%3AT%27MFSB%3E2.0.CO%3B2-P
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